Todays big news in the tech world is the launch of the streaming music service Spotify in the US. The service allows people to stream 15 million songs to their PC, Mac or smartphone device. While you can try Spotify immediately if you pay either $5 or $10 a month...

Fear. Different marketing strategies and promotion campaigns all over the world bet on happiness, joy, success, wealth and health. But there is one developer, who for the first time puts fear at the top of the food chain. Please meet the new gaming title - F.E.A.R 3!

Squishy memristor implantsA team of US researchers has fashioned a memory circuit that may provide an electronic bridge between man and machine.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Google is one of the first big tech companies to reveal its financial results for the last quarter and its numbers are indeed impressive. According to Google's press release, the quarter that ended on June 30 brought in $9.03 billion, an increase of 32 percent compared to the same...

Avast Software, one of the biggest names in computer security have announced that six out of ten people are vulnerable to attacks through them having outdated versions of Adobe Reader. What’s more worrisome is that hackers commonly use exploits in Adobe’s products which means this...

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsOnce again, rumors about a big new Apple product launch prove to be unfounded. Have you seen Mac OS X Lion today or new MacBook Airs? Neither have I. But you'd not know that reading about their July 14 releases.

For the 13th year in a row, thousands of kids are spending their summer days rolling up their sleeves and breaking a sweat at iD Tech Camps. Kids as young as 10 years old are learning how to build smartphone apps. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports.

One of the world leading email provides is stepping up their security for all their users. Since the beginning of email, spam has always been a problem that is very hard to combat. As spammers continue to get smarter with their phishing emails, Hotmail is attempting to stay one step...

By Mike Williams, BetanewsThe best of the competition knows about hundreds of thousands of tools, so the 30 or so supported here won't get you very far. But it's a new project, and numbers will increase.

Billionaire media tyrant and son carpeted by MPsA former editor of the News of the World who also worked as a PR consultant to the Metropolitan Police has been arrested. News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch have confirmed they will appear before a Parliamentary...

Amazon is reportedly working on a tablet competitor to the iPad, Google quietly launches a new photo-sharing social network called Photovine, and Spotify finally kicks off its streaming music service in the U.S. after months of rumors.

By Larry Seltzer, BetanewsEveryone, led by Vice President Whatshisname, wants to use their iPhone on the corporate network. Don't IT security people have enough problems? But the onslaught of unsecurable consumer devices in the enterprise is probably unstoppable.

Back in April, it was discovered that Apple has been tracking and recording the positions of iPhones and iPads here in the US. While there was a huge negative response to this revelation, there have so far not been any court actions in this country that have resulted in decisions...

Reader line to get wireless comms at last?Sony has regularly updated its e-book reader line - aka Reader - in the late summer/early autumn timeframe so it comes as no surprise to learn it'll be doing so again this year.…

Microsoft's attempt to launch its own search engine with Bing started up in June 2009. However in the two years since that launch Microsoft has made little headway in the search engine market. A new article at Business Insider shows a chart that indicates Bing has just 14.4 percent...

Amazon is learning that mobility is key to expanding its reach to consumers, and while it hopes to sell tablets in this new endeavor, its more concerned with encouraging more spending on its other products through the use of the tablet

According to a study conducted by the University of Melbourne, users trust prettier websites more than sloppy websites. Dr. Brent Coker, author of the study, believes that the increasingly good looking and well-designed web has caused users to intuitively trust them more. "As...

On April 20, Sony's Playstation Network online gaming service was shut down for several weeks due to a cyber attack on the network. The experience was a major public relations blow to Sony as tens of millions of PSN's personal info was exposed. However, the head of Sony's network...

Google has already announced that businesses will have to wait a little while longer to establish a Google+ page since the company is developing a version of its new social networking service specifically for companies and organizations. However it appears that there has been so much...

Through the single deal and collaboration with Nokia, Microsoft is hoping to sell 100 million Windows Phone units per year as COO Kevin Turner announced during his keynote at WPC 2011: “We have dreams and aspirations that we can get to 100 million units per year with that single ...

Rebekah Brooks will defend herselfNews Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has refused to appear before a committee of MPs who want to probe the media tycoon over phone-hacking allegations made against his sister company News International.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient...

Thanks to France’s new controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation, over 18 million file-sharers were tracked since the law was introduced in October of last year. Of these 18 million file-sharers, 1 million random IPs were reported to ISPs to gather details, following that 900,000...

Lost, never-photographed rainbow batrachian rediscoveredDetermined Malaysian scientists have pulled off a bit of a blinder in the search for lost amphibians, by getting the first snaps of the elusive Borneo rainbow toad.…

AMD still has not launched its Bulldozer platform, but many are wondering what kind of performance the platform will have. Apparently, we now have an answer. Donanim Haber got hands on a recent engineering sample, and the sample is allegedly able to run limited cores up to 4.2 GHz....

'Please be proportionate' begs UK ICOThe European Commission is asking for feedback on practical rules to ensure that anyone in Europe who has their private data breached will be told.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

If you own an iPhone 4 but know that Apple's smartphone can only connect to 3G-based wireless networks, you can considered yourself to be more enlightened than many other iPhone 4 users. According to a new study conducted by Retrevo, 34 percent of iPhone 4 users believe they own a...

Lenovo shoves onto podium alongside HP and DellAcer dropped out of the medal positions in the global PC arena, and was shunted into fourth spot as HP, Dell and Lenovo made more of the growth in professional products across emerging markets to offset weakened retail demand in mature...

All hail his noodly appendages, say AustriansPastafarians worldwide are celebrating after a landmark Austrian decision in favour of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster paved the way for its recognition as a full-fat religion.…

'Mission Fantastic' tech-spooks lured away by triple payBritish spooks, who are increasingly being tasked with wading into the so-called cybersecurity threat, have been fretting about the dearth of internet experts at GCHQ because the intelligence agency can't compete for expertise...

A newly announced PC first person shooter, Hard Reset, is due to be released sometime in September. PC Gamer's web site reveals the first details and a teaser trailer for the game which comes from a newly revealed Poland based game developer, Flying Hog Wild. The developer is...

Fetch files for your fondleslabiOS App of the Week I use Dropbox to sync files between computers and mobile devices, but the problem with Dropbox is that you can only sync files and folders that you’ve already placed into the Dropbox folders on those devices.…

Britney Spears is gagging for itSpotify is following the current trend among Web2.0 companies to lure new customers in by offering online services on an invite-only basis with the launch of the music streaming site in the US later today.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient...

Google up, but search down overall vs Web 2.0Google has increased its dominance in the UK search sector, according to the latest numbers, but search itself – though growing in absolute terms – now accounts for a lower proportion of the traffic hitting websites than it formerly did as...

Google is moving swiftly with its brand new social network that launched last week, and is pushing a large list of changes and improvements over the next week as an ongoing effort to improve the product. The speed at which this release has been announced is impressive, and the list...

Asrock had a hectic showing during this year's Taipei Computex, armed to the teeth with various new products including motherboards based on newfangled chipsets such as the Intel Z68 and AMD 990FX. Despite showcasing a bevy of boards, our interest was piqued by the latest entry in...

'It's British, naturally string is involved'Those of you with a penchant for things that go really fast with flames coming out of the back are directed to this weekend's Festival of Rocketry 2011 – Europe's "largest model and amateur rocketry event", which blasts off on Friday at...

Company that built the first internet node hiredThe company which built the first ever internet nodes back in the 1960s – and which gave the world the "@" symbol in email, among other things – has been hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology which could mimic...

The massive outcry of many Netflix subscribers over the company's decision earlier this week to raise prices by as much as 60 percent on some subscription deals was prepared for. At least that's what a Netflix spokesperson is telling the press. News.com reports that Netflix spokesman...

A brief history of virtualisationVirtualisation is not a novelty. It's actually one of the last pieces of the design of 1960s computers to trickle down to the PC – and only by understanding where it came from and how it was and is used can you begin to see the shape of its future in...

While Electronic Arts announced a deal earlier this week to acquire the casual game publisher PopCap with $750 million in cash and stock, a new story claims via unnamed source that PopCap actually got another offer that would have netted the publisher even more money up front. ...

Unhappy man's manhood macerated in garbage disposalA California woman who may have been a tad unhappy about her impending divorce allegedly drugged her estranged hubby's dinner, tied him to a bed, cut off his todger with a 10-inch kitchen knife, and then disposed of the detached...

We've been saying Microsoft is planning on shipping Windows Phone 7 "Mango" devices as well as the OS by September, and today we've received almost official confirmation that this will be the case. Microsoft recently released Mango in beta form to developers to load onto their retail...

Microsoft is making massive progress with it's next big OS update -- Mango -- for Windows Phone 7, with the company recently releasing the beta to registered developers and enabling anyone with a developer account and a registered phone to update to the beta bits. One caveat with the...

Patchy patching leaves pdf backdoors open to intrusionSix out of every 10 users of Adobe Reader are running vulnerable versions of the ubiquitous PDF reader package, according to stats from freebie anti-virus scanner firm Avast.…

Not that any of them ever will beThe crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis were this morning greeted by R.E.M's Michael Stipe, who delivered a vocal snippet of the band's Man on the Moon, followed by a quick message.…

No particular reason ...Government bodies thinking of offshoring IT functions need to make careful plans to deal with the downsides, according to guidance published on the Cabinet Office website.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Another use for Near-Field Communication (NFC) has been developed. It is another type of mobile payment system and uses an implementation of peer-to-peer technology. PayPal announced the new features today at the MobileBeat conference, according to Ars Technica. Unfortunately, so far...

In the air tonightProduct Round-up The iPod can take credit for creating an entirely new market for compact speaker systems, yet iPod sales are now starting to taper off as people move their music onto smartphones and tablets.…

It's another busy day for game news so let's get to all the announcements, shall we? Sony has announced it will be spending $20 million over the next three years to develop new downloadable games for its Playstation Network from first and third party developers. The space based...

VMware announced vSphere 5 yesterday, and Neowin covered the news, noting that the new version adds support for 32 virtual CPUs and 1 TB of RAM. However, the new pricing overshadowed the announcement and caused concern among current customers, according to Ars Technica. For the...

By Patrick HoustonThe WiFi-only S1 has a wedge-shaped design -- like a magazine with the cover folded back -- that gives it a center of gravity that makes it, Sony says, easier to hold. The S2, which will be available exclusively through AT&T as a 4G device, is a dual screen...

Android 3.2 is launching on the Motorola Xoom. A couple of marquee improvements include a new zoom mode and support for long-dormant hardware. The new version of Honeycomb will also come to other tablets in the near future.

Netflix's customer service personnel are telling callers that managers told them a day prior to announcing a price hike that they should expect some angry calls. A Wall Street analyst has accused Netflix of not being prepared for backlash and wrote that Netflix is "simply not...

Netflix's customer service personnel are telling callers that managers told them a day prior to announcing a price hike that they should expect some angry calls. A Wall Street analyst has accused Netflix of not being prepared for backlash and wrote that Netflix is "simply not...

Customer service reps are telling callers that a day before unveiling a price hike, managers told them to expect some angry calls. A Wall Street analyst has accused Netflix of being unprepared for backlash.

Statistics released by a company called Find People On Plus suggest that Google's new social-networking service is almost 75 percent male. Naturally, the No. 1 occupation for participants is "engineer."

Internode forced to rejig plansInternode founder Simon Hackett has accused “a powerful monopoly service provider” of engaging in a price squeeze that has forced the ISP to downgrade some of its plans.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

After months of rumors, at least some US residents will finally be able to try out the Spotify music streaming service tomorrow. As reported by News.com, the company has confirmed that the US version of the service, which has millions of users in Europe, will launch on Thursday...

Just a couple of weeks after Google launched its Google+ social networking service and now the company has launched a new teaser web site and video for yet another kind of networking service. The Photovine web site has now gone live but details about what the service will be about...

While ACMA is yet to resolve TV interference issuesNBN Co has secured spots of regional spectrum in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, outback Queensland and far west New South Wales for AU$1.3m. The spectrum will bolster its high-speed wireless broadband...

Splash public cash on Pacific FibreNew Zealand's newest international cable project, Pacific Fibre, has negotiated a revised contract from its first customer REANNZ for the supply of international capacity valued at NZ$91m.…

Netflix recently announced price increases that upset a lot of customers, to say the least. Whether or not you're planning to cancel your own Netflix account, it's good to know what alternatives are out there. Let's take a look at seven Netflix alternatives.

Base pricing on Apple’s iTunes and Mac App Stores has changed around the world this evening. There are price rises and decreases all of which vary based on where you live. The UK, Mexico and Norway have seen prices rise, while Australia, Japan and Switzerland have seen prices...

Amazon's entry into the tablet market will also be joined by two new versions of its Kindle e-reader, at least according to the latest Internet rumor: The Wall Street Journal reports via unnamed sources that the Amazon tablet and the new editions of the Kindle should be released in...

Microsoft continues to expand its official support for its Kinect motion controller camera. Today the company announced that it has released a version of its Kinect SDK specifically for development in robotics. The free software download, officially called the Kinect Services for...